htpasswdString is broken on its own

[Vad1mo]

registry.credentials.htpasswdString
Is supposed to be an alternative to username and password:

Login and password in htpasswd string format. Excludes registry.credentials.username and registry.credentials.password. May come in handy when integrating with tools like argocd or flux. This allows the same line to be generated each time the template is rendered, instead of the htpasswd function from helm, which generates different lines each time because of the salt.

However, the implementation of htpasswdString in the Helm Chart is broken, so if you set htpasswdString you can't login. Core and Job are using different passwords:

This search result summarizes why it is not working https://github.com/goharbor/harbor-helm/search?q=registry.credentials.password

Summary why htpasswdString is not working:

1. templates/jobservice/jobservice-secrets.yaml
   REGISTRY_CREDENTIAL_PASSWORD: {{ .Values.registry.credentials.password | b64enc | quote }}
2. templates/core/core-secret.yaml ->
   REGISTRY_CREDENTIAL_PASSWORD: {{ .Values.registry.credentials.password | b64enc | quote }}

Both Jobservice and Core are still trying to use registry.credentials.password which is different.

The only solution that is working is to set registry.credentials.password together with registry.credentials.htpasswdString

But in that case the Documentation needs an update.

[zyyw]

@Vad1mo thanks for the bug filing. Do you happen to have spare time to submit a PR for this?

[ywk253100]

Let's update the doc to declare that it's users' responsibility to make sure the registry.credentials.username and registry.credentials.password match registry.credentials.htpasswdString

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[teochenglim]

@Vad1mo any work around for the helm chart version for simple case of docker login to work?

[Vad1mo]

The only solution that is working is to set registry.credentials.password together with registry.credentials.htpasswdString

[teochenglim]

@Vad1mo helm set externalURL is also working for me. Many thanks.